Joe Biden’s campaign team has spent $4.7 million on Facebook ads so far this month even though Biden has blasted the company for allowing Trump’s reelection team to spread “misinformation” through its ads on the platform, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
According to the social media company, Biden’s $4.7 million ad spend totals more than the campaign spent on Facebook ads in all of 2019.
And while Biden is giving the company plenty of business, he also is calling for the company to change its advertising policies in order to stop fake information from being spread through pro-Trump political ads.
His campaign website asks people to sign a petition that urges Facebook to call for more fact checking. Biden also penned an open letter to founder Mark Zuckerberg claiming that some politicians are using the platform to "spread fear and misleading information."
"I am calling on you to make clear rules — applied to everyone, including Donald Trump —that prohibit threatening behavior and the spread of misinformation," Biden posted on his website. "After foreign operatives and rightwing trolls used Facebook to hack the 2016 election, Facebook vowed ‘never again’ and promised to take action. But with fewer than 5 months until the 2020 election, Facebook seems to be on a crash course to let the same mistakes happen again."
Despite the criticism, Biden’s team spent a record-breaking $1.6 million on ads in one single day last week, according to The New York Times.
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